Owerri APC rally shows Buhari’s inconsistency – PDP

Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has knocked President Muhammadu Buhari over what it called shoddy performance at the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Owerri, Imo State on Tuesday. The party also said the scanty attendance at the rally, shows that the President has become a ‘general without a troop’. In a statement on Tuesday, PDP spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said   the situation at the APC rally was so pathetic that an apparently discomfited President Buhari could not articulate any message to support his re-election bid but told Nigerians to vote for any candidate of their choice in the general election. The PDP said “It was pitiable to watch Mr. President garble, as the audience who refused to carry APC broom also remained passive, while many started leaving the venue while he was still presenting his address. “Ironically, Mr. President confessed that he had nothing new to tell Nigerians. If anything, the APC Presidential candidate, in his party’s usual penchant for false performance claims, alluded to a non-existent ‘market money’ which elicited heckles from the audience.  “The  fact that a sitting President cannot attract a meaningful audience from the same state where a mammoth and overflowing crowd received its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, just a week ago, further confirms that Nigerians, across the board, have indeed attained a consensus to return the PDP to power, come February 16, 2019″. The party advised President Buhari to “counsel himself, end his desperation for power and spend the remaining days to prepare his hand over notes to Atiku Abubakar, so that our nation can be returned to the path of peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity, which has eluded us in almost four years”.